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Editor’s note

The shrinking distance from New York to Beijing

Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott

From the July issue: It’s not a breaking news flash that the world has become a smaller and more interconnected place. But in no place is the evidence of this global shrinking more on display than at the World Cup.

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During the last World Cup, which was played in South Africa in 2010, the social media giant Facebook had just 500 million users. [more]